Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Union members who have been locked out from American Crystal Sugar plants since the start of August rejected the company’s most recent offer in a vote Tuesday.
Members of the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan appropriation package Tuesday that will soon need to be merged with an offering by U.S. House members.
A battle between the pork industry and the state of California will soon make national news as the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether a state prohibition of slaughtering nonambulatory or “downer” livestock preempts federal law.
Five members of the GOP presidential field offered very different assessments Tuesday of federal alternative energy initiatives that have paid big dividends and have spurred growth in the Hawkeye State.
CARROLL — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the country is finally catching up to his brand of politics and economic thinking.
The top executives at some of the state’s largest businesses will serve on a board overseeing Iowa’s new public-private economic development efforts, Gov. Terry Branstad has announced, although he says any potential conflicts raised by their positions will be approached “carefully.”
Following a ruling Friday by a federal judge, thousands of farmers who endured racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s should start receiving portions of a $1.25 billion settlement.
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed the recommendation of a state commission to raise the tax on gasoline by up to 10 cents per gallon.
WILTON — Quad Cities attorney John Archer kept his focus on his Democratic challenger and the economy during a recent GOP fundraiser, indicating that social issues should take a back seat the nation’s financial security at this time.
Leaders of congressional agricultural committees are working with lobbyists outside of the public’s eye to draft a Farm Bill that could be included in the super committee’s deficit reduction plan.
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